Location: Edinburgh Old Town

View down the Cowgate:

image © adrian welch 2006

St Partick's Catholic Church, Cowgate:

photo © adrian welch
Cowgate hotel
Designs unveiled - rectilinear sandstone and glass form - for five-storey 73-bed Holiday Express Inn, located in the grounds of St Patrick’s Church:


photo © adrian welch nov 2007

Please note: the Cowgate is used by a range of people to hang out so please take care, it has a certain reputation!

Cowgate buildings - Edinburgh Courts:

Cowgate buildings: photos © Adrian Welch 2006

Cowgate Fire - Artwork on site

pace artwork photo



Cowgate housing by Richard Murphy Architects

image © adrian welch 2006

Cowgate Fire - Ideas Competition

Magdalen Chapel:

photo © adrian welch 2006

Cowgate church:

photo © adrian welch 2006

Cowgate shop - Concrete Butterfly, by architect Andy Stoane:


Scottish Architecture



Cowgate building : Blackfriars St Flats

Cowgatehead Library Competition - won by Benson + Forsyth Architects, never built:

Cowgate Library Proposal

Cowgate - Tron Housing

Cowgate Nursery - Under 5's

St Cecilia's Hall

Cowgate building : SmartCityHostels

photo © adrian welch 2007

Buildings fairly close to the Cowgate include:
Edinburgh Castle
Museum of Scotland

Edinburgh News : back to index

Royal Mile Edinburgh : buildings

Cowgate Fire - Site

Cowgate Edinburgh - page: adrian welch / isabelle lomholt